Military Budget Quotes

#1. What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Rand Paul

#2. What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

Walter Karp

#3. By 2001, even the peacetime US military budget was well over half the size of all other military budgets in the world combined.

Rachel Maddow

#4. If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

Rand Paul

#5. Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

Stephen Kinzer

#6. In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

Merrill McPeak

#8. I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure.

Cynthia Dill

#9. The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

Walter Karp

#10. The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.

Lupe Fiasco

#11. It's the right time of the night for making love.

Jennifer Warnes

#12. One year of the world's military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

Zainab Salbi

#13. The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

Robert M. Gates

#14. Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Herman Kahn

#15. The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military spending of all other countries in the world combined.

Dennis Kucinich

#16. I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I think I've never had more fun. I'm just enjoying my life.

Donald Trump

#17. Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War and a desire by the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) to protect its comfortable life style in a world that is changing rapidly.

Franklin C. Spinney

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Thurston Moore

#19. These days the integrity of our small but ancient civilization is endangered by the excesses of a country whose wartime budget is larger than that of the other nine leading military powers of the world, combined.

Julian Aguon

#20. In 1981, and 1983, and every year thereafter, right around budget time, the Pentagon released its newest installment of Soviet Military Power to the public,

Rachel Maddow

#21. As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military to pick up the slack. . . . This requires still higher military budgets, which continues the devastating cycle.

Rosa Brooks

#22. The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors ...

John B. Anderson

#23. And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan's eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from around $150 billion to $300 billion a year, until it represented nearly 30 percent of our overall annual budget and more than 6 percent of GDP.

Rachel Maddow

#24. To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Stanley Hauerwas

#25. That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.

Kehinde Wiley

#26. But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

Jessica Mathews

#27. THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARMED FORCES RECEIVED EVER-HIGHER amounts of funding from an economy that couldn't afford it. In the end, a fifth of the country's hopelessly unbalanced budget was going to the military, all while the rest of the world came up with new embargoes.

Jonas Jonasson